Black students have been at Kent for well over 70 years. Over the years the history and contributions of Black people have been obscured. My family moved to Kent, Ohio in 1969. Up until that time we had never lived anywhere for more than 4 years, sometime we moved after only 2 years. Imagine myContinue reading “Birth of the Black United Students”
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Which Way Black Studies?
Two men from the same neighborhood, graduates of the same high school and both indoctrinated in the Arts and Sciences of Western Civilization, both graduates of Kent State University. The preacher’s son and the son of a numbers racketeer. A man of the cloth vs. a hustler.
The Untold Story of Black History Month
Twenty years after the death of Dr. Woodson, in 1950, Black students and administrators, at Kent State University, felt Black history was still important and took it upon themselves to shine the spotlight on it for an entire month.
Got a story to tell? Let us know!
We’re hard at work documenting Akron’s Black history. Black history is being made and documented every day. Our job is to find it and put it into a format that makes it accessible, memorable and useful to students from 8-80. Our publications a number of interactive books for children, college level books for secondary andContinue reading “Got a story to tell? Let us know!”